[arch-general] Exiting wpa_supplicant

[nelsonmarambio at gmx.de]

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> Datum: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:28:57 +0200
> Von: "Thomas Bächler" <thomas at archlinux.org>
> An: arch-general at archlinux.org
> Betreff: Re: [arch-general] Exiting wpa_supplicant

> Am 23.10.2012 02:42, schrieb Rafael Beraldo:
> > That's interesting. Why is that a bad idea? I used to do it by hand,
> > waiting for
> > wpa_supplicant to stablish a connection and then running dhcp.
> 
> You wait for 10 seconds. That is way too long. A wireless connection is
> usually established within 3 seconds. Or not.
> 
> You wait for 10 seconds. That is way too short. A wireless connection
> may take 30 or even 60 seconds to establish.
> 
> A wireless connection may go up and down. It may stay down. Or come back
> up. You need to react to these changes.
> 
> 
> Luckily, dhcpcd can partially handle this these days and you can simply
> start dhcpcd without delay, and it will figure out when to request an IP.
>

Hi, Thomas,

the delay of 10 seconds is recommended by the computing centre which maintains the university-wide WLAN. Without the delay dhcpcd returns a timeout.

Your reasons against wpa_supplicant are conclusive but neither netcfg nor wicd (which I would prefer) are supported here. Especially the encryption method that I have to configure in wicd is not documented.

Kind regards,
Nelson.